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Ontologies can take many forms. There are ontologies that are extremely formal (e.g., using first order logic), and there are ontologies that are less formally defined (e.g., ontologies in the relational databases or dictionaries). Nonetheless, all of these can be considered ontologies and are appropriate in different situations.In this paper, I will present a view of levels of ontology formalizations and then describe three efforts that have applied ontologies to solve real-world problems. I will show where each of these efforts fall on the formalization spectrum and show why that level of formalization is appropriate for that application.

Author

Craig Schlenoff

Publisher

ACM

Published

2009

Language

EN